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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 2, 2000Sussex County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2000, 6:28 PM EDT for Sussex County, New Jersey. It was in force for 32 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 2, 2000, 6:28 PM EDT (22:28 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 2000, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Sussex County, NJ

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 2, 6:30 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 57 ECountywide, NJ

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 2, 5:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 151 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2000-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2000-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 38 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2021 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
111 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS51 KPHI 022229
SVRPHL
NJC037-022300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
628 PM EDT FRI JUN 2 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN SUSSEX COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY.

* UNTIL 700 PM EDT.

* AT 622 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF SUSSEX...OR ABOUT 43
  MILES NORTHWEST OF PATERSON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  SUSSEX AT 635 PM EDT...
  VERNON VALLEY AT 640 PM EDT...

FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION...PLEASE TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER
RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION...OR YOUR CABLE
TELEVISION OUTLET.

NNNN

LAT...LON 4120 7479 4112 7459 4134 7429 4150 7444

The office that day

Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 6:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIWarren50 min
Jun 2, 6:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIHunterdon, Morris38 min
Jun 2, 7:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHISomerset45 min
Jun 2, 7:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMercer45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Jersey, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.